After not releasing any new books in 2025, I have two advance review books available for 2026. Both these books come out midyear this year, and I’d love to find folks interested in reviewing them.

The first one, The Temperance Engine, is…um. I’m…um. I’m not sure what it is, and I co-wrote it.

It’s kind of an erotica novel (there’s a lot of sex in it). It’s kind of a historical satire. It’s kind of science fiction, sort of. It has elements of steampunk, maybe? It’s sort of a coming-of-age story, I guess, maybe.

The story is set in modern-day Buffalo, New York, and 1870s London. Odd-numbered chapters follow a group of college friends when one of them inherits a house from a relative he didn’t know he had. They find a diary and a hidden mad science lab in a boarded-up section of the basement. The even-numbered chapters, told through the diary they find, follows a London doctor in 1869 obsessed with finding a cure for the mental illness of furor uterinus, also known as “nymphomania,” and details his efforts to build an apparatus that would cure this dread condition.

The college students decide to replicate some of his experiments, for reasons of their own, and in the process discover some things about their own desires they didn’t previously know.

One rather clever person on social media describes it as “steamypunk,” which I suppose is as good a term for it as any.

The second book, Spectres, is much more straightforward; it’s an anthology of supernatural erotica, but with a new spin (no stereotypical vampire porn or ghost porn here!). It contains thirteen stories ranging from short fiction to full novellas, including stories about heartless gods, an archaeologist possessed by the spirit of a long-gone Hittite priestess, alien invasion, a very special hotel that’s visited once a year by a pair of Assyrian lovers, and more.

I have ePubs and a limited number of paperback ARCs available. If either of these books sounds like your jam, let me know!